Santos said: "When people talk about fair play sometimes it makes me want to laugh.

"When we talk about other people's reaction in Portugal we say if you don't feel you are not really a good person.

"After what the Iceland manager and some players said and did for 90 minutes - they booed Pepe and Ronaldo - and the players on the bench kept heckling Pepe, people will respond the way they can, in a very emotional way.

"You should always have fair play and I have always played fair. In the post-match press conference I made no comments or statements or provocations.

“He had a header in the final minutes of the game and a chance in the first half but otherwise I thought we had him under control,” Arnason continued.

“We didn’t set up to man mark him or anything, we just had to know where he was at any given moment and that he will shoot from outside the box and that everything has to be blocked.

“He’s a fantastic footballer but he’s not a gracious human being and the thing is we almost nicked the win so him saying we weren’t going for the win contradicts that.

“We got a draw and could have nicked it. Obviously we’re not going to create as much chances as a fantastic team like Portugal but his comments are the reason why Messi is always going to be one step ahead of him.

“It shows we got under his skin. It was lovely to hear that.”

Ronaldo appeals to the referee after missing a chance (Image: Reuters)

Ronaldo ran riot against Malmo in the Champions League (Image: Denis Doyle/Getty)

“Horrendous... It was embarrassing,” he said.

“It was a terrible game. Playing alongside Ragnar Sigurdsson is a bit different to playing with the boy [Malmo's Felipe Carvalho] I was playing with that night.

“Sometimes when you play with South Americans they complicate things a bit whereas here we know exactly what we’re doing and it feels better.

“It was a poorly set-up game and we gave it to them on a silver platter. We didn’t even make it hard for them.

“We’d played Real Madrid at home before in Sweden and I thought we had him under quite good surveillance, even though he scored two. One was on a counter attack that should never have happened and the other was when one man got sent off and he just buried us.

“We didn’t have the strongest team at the Bernabeu, it doesn’t compare to what we have here. It’s better organisation, much better players and when it’s like that it’s a bit easier.”

Ronaldo will become ­Portugal’s all-time leading appearance maker ­overtaking Luis Figo – when he wins his 128th cap in Saturday's match against Austria at the Parc des Princes.